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Jul. 8th, 2011 03:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Orrin Hatch came right out today and said that the poor and middle class have it too easy in this country and need to sacrifice for the good of the very rich. his claim is that the very rich having even larger savings will somehow create jobs, unlike ordinary people having money to spend. He is claiming that a 15% tax rate for the rich is way too high. No really. Yes the stated rate is higher, but there are all these deductions and loop holes that make a stated tax rate of 35% 20% less than than the stated rate in the real world of actual payments. But oh we should feel sorry for those rich people who haven't even noticed the recession, and every one needs to sacrifice to make billionaires richer. Nice.
Seriously, the poor and middle c;lass are already sacrificing, which is why the economy is so sluggish. Adding more money to folks who have more money than they need will not increase spending. Adding money to the poor and middle class means that people can buy food and replace things that break or wear out, which creates jobs because someone needs to be selling them more things. Deliberately decreasing demand does not improve the economy. This is literally economics 102.
* Rupert Murdoch's news of the world folds Monday over the phone hacking scandal. There is some worry that they will use this as an excuse to destroy records that could be used as evidence. Now lets hope the arrests start soon and that the people at the top are targeted.
* We are now in violation of the international treaty that allows citizens abroad to get help from their embassies. Gov. Perry has executed a foreign national without allowing him help from his embassy, thus endangering American citizens abroad accused of crimes. After all, as we violated the Vienna convention, other governments are no longer legally or morally obliged to treat us as signatories in good faith. The conservative majority in the supreme court are complicit, as they refused to stay the execution to allow congress to act to enforce the treaty.
Republicans: deliberately making American citizens less safe abroad. After all, killing people is way more important than following treaties or the law.
* Thank you Nancy Pelosi for today's display of spine. Please keep it up.
* Ooooo! Santa Olivia, the distopian near future boxing novel with a lesbian POC heroine, has a sequel called, Saints Astray!
* In the wake of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf and the recent Yosemite spill, the Republicans have decided the best response is to gut the Interior department budget so as to defund attempts to inspect drilling rigs and pipelines and to reject a proposal to make the oil industry (the most prosperous industry with the biggest profits in the history of the world) to pay the cost of government inspections. After all, the last thing we'd want to do is prevent future disasters.
* A helpful guide for Comic Con survival: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/368938.html?style=mine#cutid1
I suspect I'm one of the few people who never wants to go. I'm not good in the heat. Imagine me in San Diego in July in a venue that crowded. *shudder* I'd need a wheelchair and a climate controlled encounter suit.
* The Clutch:
Seriously, the poor and middle c;lass are already sacrificing, which is why the economy is so sluggish. Adding more money to folks who have more money than they need will not increase spending. Adding money to the poor and middle class means that people can buy food and replace things that break or wear out, which creates jobs because someone needs to be selling them more things. Deliberately decreasing demand does not improve the economy. This is literally economics 102.
* Rupert Murdoch's news of the world folds Monday over the phone hacking scandal. There is some worry that they will use this as an excuse to destroy records that could be used as evidence. Now lets hope the arrests start soon and that the people at the top are targeted.
* We are now in violation of the international treaty that allows citizens abroad to get help from their embassies. Gov. Perry has executed a foreign national without allowing him help from his embassy, thus endangering American citizens abroad accused of crimes. After all, as we violated the Vienna convention, other governments are no longer legally or morally obliged to treat us as signatories in good faith. The conservative majority in the supreme court are complicit, as they refused to stay the execution to allow congress to act to enforce the treaty.
Republicans: deliberately making American citizens less safe abroad. After all, killing people is way more important than following treaties or the law.
* Thank you Nancy Pelosi for today's display of spine. Please keep it up.
* Ooooo! Santa Olivia, the distopian near future boxing novel with a lesbian POC heroine, has a sequel called, Saints Astray!
* In the wake of the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf and the recent Yosemite spill, the Republicans have decided the best response is to gut the Interior department budget so as to defund attempts to inspect drilling rigs and pipelines and to reject a proposal to make the oil industry (the most prosperous industry with the biggest profits in the history of the world) to pay the cost of government inspections. After all, the last thing we'd want to do is prevent future disasters.
* A helpful guide for Comic Con survival: http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/368938.html?style=mine#cutid1
I suspect I'm one of the few people who never wants to go. I'm not good in the heat. Imagine me in San Diego in July in a venue that crowded. *shudder* I'd need a wheelchair and a climate controlled encounter suit.
* The Clutch:
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Date: 2011-07-09 12:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-09 02:10 am (UTC)I can manage Orycon, but occasionally have to leave to get air. I think the shear quantity and stink of that many geeks pressing in and bumping up against me would simply be too much. Yes, most geeks, bath, but the ones that don't really don't in my experience, and I've had trouble at Orycon being trapped in an elevator with people who make my eyes sting. I have an extremely good sense of smell, and crowds are just generally intense with all the noise, movement, smell, and touching of strangers. I thing Comic con would be way too intense for me, and my legs and balance are bad.
It's not like I have money for travel, and I certainly don't feel left out. Mostly, I'm boggling at the people who do go.
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Date: 2011-07-09 05:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-07-09 12:01 pm (UTC)